Latest / The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast / Week 6 NFL Lines with Scooch and the Millimonster
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Favorites podcast. I am Shad
- 0:13Speaker 1: Milman of the Action Network. It is Wednesday, which means
- 0:16Speaker 1: we are bringing in Bookmaker to the world, head of
- 0:22Speaker 1: the Orleans and all the Boyd gaming books in the
- 0:25Speaker 1: state of Nevada, a man with his own boom tastic
- 0:30Speaker 1: walk up music, Mr Bob Scoochee. I can't even I'll
- 0:51Speaker 1: tell you what. It sounds so much more over the
- 0:53Speaker 1: top today than it ever has ever to me too.
- 0:59Speaker 1: I don't know why that is. I think it maybe
- 1:02Speaker 1: it's early in the morning, and maybe it was louder.
- 1:04Speaker 1: But there's three of us there, the two mats, the
- 1:06Speaker 1: producers of the podcast. We were all just laughing hysterically
- 1:10Speaker 1: as like it crescendoed into something that was so overwhelmingly, deliciously,
- 1:19Speaker 1: sweetly bigger than this podcast could ever possibly live up to. Right, No,
- 1:26Speaker 1: that's great. It is very early for you at six am.
- 1:30Speaker 1: We had to record normally recorded this on Tuesday nights.
- 1:32Speaker 1: We're recording it very early Wednesday morning because you're crazy
- 1:35Speaker 1: busy with the huge gambling conference G two E that
- 1:39Speaker 1: is going on. I know you're very busy. Um, I
- 1:43Speaker 1: do want to talk about one thing. What's that. I
- 1:46Speaker 1: am a man of principles, as I stated last week,
- 1:50Speaker 1: and I did what I said I was going to do.
- 1:54Speaker 1: When there were short home phaves and home dogs, I
- 1:58Speaker 1: bet them. The only two teams that I avoided as
- 2:02Speaker 1: short home favors home dogs were the Lines and the Jets,
- 2:06Speaker 1: and I got bit in the asked for it. But
- 2:08Speaker 1: every other time I had the chance, I did it.
- 2:10Speaker 1: The Seahawks, the Bills. Who else was it last week? Um,
- 2:16Speaker 1: the Browns, the and then I got the Cardinals. Uh.
- 2:21Speaker 1: The only game I lost, like week last week that
- 2:23Speaker 1: I that I bet was the Jags. Like I made
- 2:27Speaker 1: a last minute decision to bet the Jags plus three,
- 2:29Speaker 1: and like it was the one game I said all
- 2:31Speaker 1: week I wasn't going to bet, and then I bet
- 2:33Speaker 1: them and I lost. And this week Scooch is shaping
- 2:37Speaker 1: up to be one of those weeks where all of
- 2:39Speaker 1: my principles are going to be tested, because every single
- 2:42Speaker 1: short home faith and home dog looks like trash. Yeah,
- 2:49Speaker 1: this is this is this might be the opposite of
- 2:51Speaker 1: last week. I don't know this this this week kind
- 2:53Speaker 1: of scares me. You know, every of the early games
- 2:57Speaker 1: last week, every home team won Uh, they weren't all favorites.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Obviously mustiplem are dogs, but every home team one. This week,
- 3:06Speaker 1: we've got a lot of short road favorites. Um, they're
- 3:10Speaker 1: not exactly teams you'd like to unload the house on,
- 3:15Speaker 1: but a lot of a lot of short point spreads
- 3:17Speaker 1: this week only only really two games that have a
- 3:22Speaker 1: point spread more than three and a half. Well, we
- 3:25Speaker 1: got a lot to get to and later on in
- 3:26Speaker 1: this interesting Yeah, yeah, there's gonna be a lot of
- 3:29Speaker 1: games that are troubling me. I've only made two bets
- 3:31Speaker 1: so far this week, two times where I thought I
- 3:33Speaker 1: was getting the best of the number. And then I
- 3:34Speaker 1: want to talk to you before I do anything else.
- 3:36Speaker 1: But we're gonna get to it later on the show.
- 3:38Speaker 1: We will get to Scooch Roulette, which we both won
- 3:41Speaker 1: last week. You had the Bills, I had the Seahawks.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Worked out well for both the of us. Um, yeah,
- 3:49Speaker 1: it killed me. Like you know, I do Sports Center
- 3:51Speaker 1: every Sunday. I like to mention that as often as
- 3:53Speaker 1: I can, and then I will write about my Sunday
- 3:56Speaker 1: in Millman's Red Zone Diaries, which you can find on
- 3:58Speaker 1: the Action Network Action network dot com him download the
- 4:00Speaker 1: app and um, I talked about how the Seahawks were
- 4:05Speaker 1: the play that I loved the most, talked about him
- 4:07Speaker 1: a week, bet him aggressively, actually bet him twice once
- 4:10Speaker 1: by accident, and Um Sunday morning, I lost my courage
- 4:15Speaker 1: and did not talk about them on Sports Center and
- 4:18Speaker 1: I talked about the Jags and the Chiefs instead. And
- 4:20Speaker 1: I am kicking myself still, like who are you? Why
- 4:24Speaker 1: are you not a man who believes what you think? Yeah,
- 4:28Speaker 1: and there's another game that's identical with one of the
- 4:31Speaker 1: same teams involved. I know we're going to get to it.
- 4:35Speaker 1: We're gonna get to it. And I like, I don't know,
- 4:38Speaker 1: case Keenum doesn't feel like Russell Wilson, but we'll get
- 4:40Speaker 1: to that. We'll totally get to that. Um, So what
- 4:43Speaker 1: did you so? What did you say about the What
- 4:45Speaker 1: did you say about the Jags and the Chiefs? And
- 4:47Speaker 1: I went with the Jags. I went with the Jackson.
- 4:49Speaker 1: I felt like there was a little bit of value
- 4:51Speaker 1: on the Jags. I thought like the Chiefs were over inflated.
- 4:54Speaker 1: The line probably should have been too. I felt like
- 4:56Speaker 1: it was just a matchup of strength. I felt like
- 4:59Speaker 1: best score defense, best scoring offense, best, second best red
- 5:02Speaker 1: zone defense, second best red zone offense. I felt like
- 5:06Speaker 1: the Chiefs defensive line would be dominated by the Jaguars
- 5:10Speaker 1: offensive line and that the Jaguars would be able to
- 5:14Speaker 1: control the ball and keep it close. Um, And they
- 5:18Speaker 1: might have been able to do that, but Blake Bortles
- 5:21Speaker 1: decided to be Blake Bortles and was throwing the ball
- 5:23Speaker 1: off of teammates helmets in the red zone and like
- 5:26Speaker 1: had the re turnovers there and so you know, for that,
- 5:29Speaker 1: that's what happened, and so I ended up, you know,
- 5:32Speaker 1: eating that one. Yep, my logic was sound, but analysis,
- 5:38Speaker 1: as they've said on a podcast before, the right side
- 5:43Speaker 1: is the winning side. Melmonism, boom, Let's get this baby going.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I know you gotta get to the airport. Let's get
- 5:52Speaker 1: this baby going. This Thursday night game speaks exactly to
- 5:56Speaker 1: everything we're talking about regarding short road favorites home underdogs.
- 6:04Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Eagles three point favorites over the New York Giants.
- 6:09Speaker 1: This is where the rubber meets the road. This is
- 6:10Speaker 1: the rub for me. I can't bet the Giants because
- 6:14Speaker 1: I bet the Giants is home dogs like three times
- 6:17Speaker 1: this year and gotten my ass handed to me. I
- 6:20Speaker 1: can't be at the Eagles because I don't believe in
- 6:22Speaker 1: them at all right now, So what am I supposed
- 6:24Speaker 1: to do? The play is normally to take the three
- 6:27Speaker 1: points at home, and I think this is definitely going
- 6:29Speaker 1: to go up to three and a half. So, um,
- 6:32Speaker 1: if you if you stick by those principles, then you
- 6:35Speaker 1: have to take the Giants plus the three and a half.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Uh they did get the Giants did get the cover
- 6:41Speaker 1: last week against Carolina, they were getting six and a half. Uh.
- 6:44Speaker 1: They end up losing the game by two. And uh
- 6:48Speaker 1: but if you saw any of that game, Eli Manning
- 6:51Speaker 1: just you know, interceptions that right right when they're driving
- 6:56Speaker 1: inside the red zone and uh, he's just I mean,
- 7:01Speaker 1: you're amazed at the guy that that. He's like an
- 7:04Speaker 1: iron man. He can just he never seems to get injured.
- 7:07Speaker 1: He's been around forever. But then he he he throws
- 7:11Speaker 1: these passes just out of nowhere that you're like, oh
- 7:14Speaker 1: my god. They've got a lot of issues this year.
- 7:17Speaker 1: We talked about him last year how you just can't
- 7:19Speaker 1: bet the Giants, but the the Eagles, you talk about
- 7:22Speaker 1: a game that they cannot afford to lose, you know, Uh,
- 7:26Speaker 1: last week against Minnesota, I felt like that was a
- 7:28Speaker 1: critical game where both Minnesota and Philly they that neither
- 7:32Speaker 1: one of them could afford to lose that game. And
- 7:36Speaker 1: now you know Philly loses that game against Minnesota, they
- 7:39Speaker 1: cannot afford to lose this one. So I understand the
- 7:42Speaker 1: move and the money on the on the Eagles, but boy,
- 7:47Speaker 1: the Giants. Giants can keep this game closed. So if
- 7:49Speaker 1: if it goes to three and a half, I think
- 7:51Speaker 1: you gotta take the home team. Yeah yeah, Uh, the
- 7:57Speaker 1: Chicago Bears minus three at Miami. Let's test our principles
- 8:01Speaker 1: right now? Where is everyone going? Yeah, you're not getting
- 8:06Speaker 1: uh sharp guys and the public both on the same
- 8:09Speaker 1: side on this one, both on both on the Bears,
- 8:12Speaker 1: and uh, we kind of like them or ourselves. We
- 8:16Speaker 1: thought we were more on the high side than the
- 8:19Speaker 1: low side going We didn't want to go more than
- 8:22Speaker 1: a field goal on the road with the Bears. But
- 8:26Speaker 1: we we opened three. We're up to three minus twenty,
- 8:29Speaker 1: very close to going to three and a half. I
- 8:32Speaker 1: know that some places actually open two and a half. So,
- 8:35Speaker 1: like I said, I thought we were on the high
- 8:36Speaker 1: side on this one. But it turns out We're gonna
- 8:40Speaker 1: be big Dolphin fans, both the sharp guys and the
- 8:43Speaker 1: public publics on this game at a clip of about
- 8:47Speaker 1: six to one. So uh really no uh no love
- 8:51Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, and uh, you know you can kind
- 8:55Speaker 1: of kind of understand why. But these are kind of
- 8:59Speaker 1: the games, like I said, short road favorites, these are
- 9:03Speaker 1: the kind of weeks we either have real big weeks
- 9:05Speaker 1: or we get crushed and there's like nothing in between.
- 9:09Speaker 1: I feel like this game gets to three and a
- 9:11Speaker 1: half and you kind of gotta you might get some
- 9:14Speaker 1: sharp action on the other side at three and a half.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I think there's value on the Dolphins at home. Uh.
- 9:20Speaker 1: You know, I know there's probably not a whole lot
- 9:22Speaker 1: of reason to get excited about Miami. I think last
- 9:26Speaker 1: week I said they were one of the worst three
- 9:29Speaker 1: win teams in the in the NFL. Uh so uh
- 9:33Speaker 1: and then last week watching them blow that seventeen nothing
- 9:37Speaker 1: lead against Cincinnati in a blink, Um, you know, it
- 9:41Speaker 1: doesn't give you a whole lot of confidence in them.
- 9:42Speaker 1: So uh but uh, I think the Bears are coming
- 9:47Speaker 1: off of by a week, so I could understand the
- 9:51Speaker 1: move on the on the Bears, but I think like
- 9:54Speaker 1: you said, plus three at home, and especially if you
- 9:57Speaker 1: get three and a half, probably a little more value
- 9:59Speaker 1: on the the Dolphins. Do you know what I'm gonna do?
- 10:02Speaker 1: In the Action Network app, you can set alerts for
- 10:06Speaker 1: UH line watching, and I'm going to send alert to
- 10:10Speaker 1: get the Dolphins plus three and a half? Wow? What
- 10:16Speaker 1: I do next game? And then and then you just
- 10:18Speaker 1: automatically beat them? Right? I think I would. I think
- 10:21Speaker 1: it's automatically bet them at three. Yeah, I think I would.
- 10:23Speaker 1: I mean, how could I not. I'm getting the hook,
- 10:26Speaker 1: as they say in the biz, I'm getting the hook.
- 10:30Speaker 1: Mm hm. Why do you think they call the half
- 10:32Speaker 1: point the hook? Is it like because you're hooking in betters?
- 10:38Speaker 1: I don't know. I got to look that one up.
- 10:40Speaker 1: That goes way back, doesn't it? It does the hook?
- 10:44Speaker 1: You got the hook, especially if you if you if
- 10:46Speaker 1: you lay three and a half and they win by three,
- 10:48Speaker 1: you got hooked. Well there you go. Hey. Maybe it
- 10:51Speaker 1: was something that Bob Martin, one of our Sports Betting
- 10:54Speaker 1: Hall of Famers um, one of the original bookmakers. Maybe
- 10:58Speaker 1: maybe he thought of that phrase. Ye remember when we
- 11:02Speaker 1: did the Sports Bidding Hall of Fame and I wanted
- 11:05Speaker 1: to put Phil Nicholson in and like you were afraid
- 11:07Speaker 1: to say his name because like it was almost like
- 11:10Speaker 1: he was Boldemort, And for some reason you decided that
- 11:13Speaker 1: was that was taking it too far, like saying Phil
- 11:17Speaker 1: Mickelson wasn't known better? Like that was that was something
- 11:20Speaker 1: that made you scared. Yeah I did. I don't. I
- 11:24Speaker 1: don't know why. I let I'll let you bring him in.
- 11:27Speaker 1: It's like it's like like six months later, you still
- 11:31Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it. It's like, what is
- 11:33Speaker 1: this guy had on you? All Right, it's good? This
- 11:38Speaker 1: is the game. I thought, this is the game I
- 11:39Speaker 1: bet because I wanted to get the best of the
- 11:41Speaker 1: number Cincinnati minus two and a half against Pittsburgh in Cincinnati.
- 11:47Speaker 1: I bet the Bengals a two and a half. I can.
- 11:50Speaker 1: And you think this is going to go to three.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Obviously you wanted to You wanted to get it before
- 11:55Speaker 1: it goes to three. I think you could. Yeah, I mean,
- 11:57Speaker 1: I'm seeing it seems to me like the money in
- 12:00Speaker 1: the bets are coming in on Pittsburgh right now, which
- 12:02Speaker 1: is surprising to me. Um, but this isn't a very
- 12:05Speaker 1: good team and the Bengals are a little bit hotter
- 12:08Speaker 1: and if they're not getting the money, then bully for me.
- 12:10Speaker 1: I'm on the right side, I think. Yeah. So so
- 12:13Speaker 1: this is one that I think when the sharp guys
- 12:15Speaker 1: do come in, they'll come in on the Bengals. But
- 12:19Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet, and the public is on
- 12:21Speaker 1: the Steelers, so this game could kind of creep down.
- 12:25Speaker 1: I think if it was going to go to three,
- 12:27Speaker 1: I think it already would have went. Um. You know,
- 12:31Speaker 1: we do get those moves a half hour before game
- 12:34Speaker 1: time that those are the real, the real strong steam moves. Uh.
- 12:39Speaker 1: When you see something move right before game time, it's
- 12:42Speaker 1: usually the right side, so you know, the late moves
- 12:46Speaker 1: the correct move, as they say, bringing back a scooch
- 12:49Speaker 1: is um yeah yeah, but you know the Steelers Finally,
- 12:54Speaker 1: I think the Steelers played probably their best game uh
- 12:59Speaker 1: last week. Uh. I was a little surprised at how
- 13:02Speaker 1: well they played. I thought after the first three games,
- 13:06Speaker 1: looking at who they played and how they played, they
- 13:09Speaker 1: had a lot of problems. But it looked like they
- 13:12Speaker 1: kind of solved all their offensive issues and defensive issues
- 13:16Speaker 1: last week and I think put together one of their
- 13:18Speaker 1: best games. So uh, certainly the public is gonna remember that,
- 13:22Speaker 1: and the public loves to like to They love to
- 13:24Speaker 1: bet on the Steelers when they're good. So uh, they
- 13:27Speaker 1: gave him a reason to bet them this this week.
- 13:31Speaker 1: That everything you're saying gives me no confidence in my
- 13:34Speaker 1: bet on the Bengals thinking on them, sharp guy here, Yeah, yeah,
- 13:40Speaker 1: you know, so you know you look, you look at
- 13:43Speaker 1: how the Bengals came back in that game against Miami,
- 13:45Speaker 1: and it gives you a little confidence. But getting down
- 13:48Speaker 1: seventeen and nothing early doesn't you know, it doesn't really
- 13:51Speaker 1: bolster any good, good feelings about putting your money on them. Okay, well,
- 13:57Speaker 1: especially against the Steelers who may have find only gotten
- 14:00Speaker 1: there their mojo back. Don't be against me when I've
- 14:03Speaker 1: got a short home favorite. Okay, I gotta go with
- 14:06Speaker 1: my gut, all right, you got you gotta bet the number.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't even look at the teams. You bet
- 14:11Speaker 1: the number. That's what I do. I have principles and
- 14:13Speaker 1: I have theories, and I don't even look at the teams.
- 14:15Speaker 1: The first thing I do, I've said this many times.
- 14:17Speaker 1: The first thing I do as I look at the number.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Second thing I do is look at the market. Third
- 14:21Speaker 1: thing I do is see if any sort of the
- 14:22Speaker 1: metrics and stats are buoying my um foundational principles. Yeah,
- 14:31Speaker 1: and if it works of the time, you're good, damn straight.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Here's a game I did bet you're ready yea, And
- 14:42Speaker 1: I bet it New England minus three before it moved
- 14:48Speaker 1: to three and a half because I got the best
- 14:52Speaker 1: of the number. Someone in the bookmaking community his name,
- 14:57Speaker 1: his name may or may not be abob Scucci once
- 14:59Speaker 1: said to me, nobody gets rich betting against Bill Belichick.
- 15:02Speaker 1: I amended that to nobody gets rich betting against Bill
- 15:05Speaker 1: Belichick when he's less than a touchdown favorite at home.
- 15:10Speaker 1: That theory has served me well. I'm going with the
- 15:14Speaker 1: Patriots minus three. I tried to be as high as
- 15:18Speaker 1: I could could be on this game, so um I
- 15:22Speaker 1: I thought at three that they would take the Chiefs,
- 15:25Speaker 1: but I went I went to three minus twenty on
- 15:28Speaker 1: the Patriots. Got a little bit of money on the Chiefs,
- 15:31Speaker 1: and uh, I went to three and a half pretty
- 15:34Speaker 1: quickly off of just a few thousand dollars, and uh
- 15:38Speaker 1: it's been all Chiefs since then, but mostly from from
- 15:41Speaker 1: public money, which is okay. I expect the public to
- 15:45Speaker 1: come in on the Chiefs on this one. At a
- 15:47Speaker 1: rate of about two to one only because they feel
- 15:50Speaker 1: like the Chiefs are statistically the best team in the
- 15:54Speaker 1: in the a f C. And uh, but you gotta
- 15:59Speaker 1: take gotta throw those first couple of games out on
- 16:01Speaker 1: the Patriots. And this is you know, before the season started,
- 16:04Speaker 1: what would the line have been. Uh, you know, the
- 16:07Speaker 1: Patriots may have been four or four and a half
- 16:09Speaker 1: point favorites. And then we saw the big adjustment to
- 16:13Speaker 1: the Chiefs after they win their first four games, and
- 16:16Speaker 1: we saw a little adjustment down on the Patriots. And
- 16:19Speaker 1: now we're kind of creeping back up. So if there
- 16:21Speaker 1: is value on this game, I agree with you that
- 16:24Speaker 1: it's on the Patriots. And normally you don't lay three
- 16:27Speaker 1: and a half. But uh, I like the Patriots and
- 16:30Speaker 1: this one also love it. I love it at three.
- 16:33Speaker 1: I don't need to worry about laying three and a half.
- 16:36Speaker 1: You didn't Yeah, you didn't get hooked. No, no, Sewie Scooch.
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- 17:38Speaker 1: select their online betting platform Scooch, let's get back to
- 17:44Speaker 1: her brother next up. I think this game is in London.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I um, Seattle at Oakland? Is that where it is?
- 17:53Speaker 1: It is? Isn't it Cheerio? So it's it's considered a
- 17:58Speaker 1: home game for the Raiders. Uh uh. The Seahawks are
- 18:01Speaker 1: three point favorites. I guess it's a neutral field. I
- 18:03Speaker 1: guess what you're saying to me is that Seattle is, uh,
- 18:06Speaker 1: you know, the better team than the Oakland Raiders, which
- 18:09Speaker 1: not surprising. I have no opinion on this game. Yeah,
- 18:13Speaker 1: it's a trash game. Let's not talk. Has anybody done
- 18:18Speaker 1: anything with move on? Has anyone done anything with it?
- 18:21Speaker 1: It's one. This is one of the lowest bet games
- 18:24Speaker 1: on the board. There isn't even a big bet that
- 18:28Speaker 1: that I see on this game. The Raiders, their their
- 18:33Speaker 1: power rankings just keep dropping week after week. Their their
- 18:37Speaker 1: offense and Derek carrs just it seems like a completely
- 18:41Speaker 1: different offense than the last couple of years. And uh
- 18:44Speaker 1: and Seattle put together, I mean, you know, loosen tone.
- 18:48Speaker 1: But to the Rams by only two um isn't a
- 18:51Speaker 1: bad loss for Seattle. So I expect the money to
- 18:54Speaker 1: come in on Seattle. This is where again my principal
- 19:00Speaker 1: are tested. The New York Jets two and a half
- 19:03Speaker 1: point favorites at home against the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah, boy,
- 19:10Speaker 1: you got to just lay the favorite this one, right,
- 19:12Speaker 1: really do right? You got to close your Yeah, you
- 19:15Speaker 1: gotta close your eyes and just lay the favorite on
- 19:17Speaker 1: this one. Um, I'm surprised. Is that the right thing
- 19:21Speaker 1: to do? Like, if you're telling me that's what I
- 19:23Speaker 1: should do, I would make the bet right now. I'm
- 19:31Speaker 1: not there's certain there are certain teams that that I
- 19:33Speaker 1: that I can't do it with. Um. I'm not a
- 19:36Speaker 1: d sold on the Jets. And I'm not just gonna
- 19:39Speaker 1: look at how well they played against the Broncos last
- 19:41Speaker 1: week to say, Okay, the Jets are really that good. Um,
- 19:45Speaker 1: I just think it's situationally. Last week Denver was probably
- 19:49Speaker 1: a little down, uh from from the week before, where
- 19:52Speaker 1: a game that they felt that they should have won
- 19:54Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. And UM, I'm just not completely sold
- 19:59Speaker 1: on on the Jets. And I was pretty high on
- 20:01Speaker 1: this Colts team. Uh, and Andrew Luck and the way
- 20:05Speaker 1: he's been able to get this team back when they're down,
- 20:10Speaker 1: the Jets are probably you know, I I would probably
- 20:16Speaker 1: say that the Cults are the better team. And uh,
- 20:19Speaker 1: that's so if they're getting two and a half, I
- 20:22Speaker 1: just wouldn't bet it, but I would leave Colts. I'm
- 20:27Speaker 1: not betting it the next game, however, the next game,
- 20:32Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers at the Cleveland Browns. One of
- 20:36Speaker 1: the things I pride myself on as a sharp as
- 20:40Speaker 1: a wise guy is knowing when to get off a team.
- 20:44Speaker 1: So like for me, I knew sort of the steam
- 20:49Speaker 1: had run out on the Colts right, I just wasn't
- 20:52Speaker 1: feeling it anymore. UM. I felt like the Cardinals were
- 20:56Speaker 1: a team where there was still a lot of value,
- 20:57Speaker 1: and I have won on them three weekends, and we'll
- 21:00Speaker 1: get to them. The Browns are one of those teams
- 21:03Speaker 1: where I just knew last weekend they were the right
- 21:07Speaker 1: side against against um, I already Baltimore at home Baltimore.
- 21:14Speaker 1: The Chargers, to me, they're a team that I think
- 21:19Speaker 1: is getting better, and I think that I think the
- 21:23Speaker 1: Browns like had the right defense against the right team
- 21:27Speaker 1: last week, a one dimensional Ravens offense. The Chargers are
- 21:30Speaker 1: not one dimensional, and so this is a bigger challenge.
- 21:35Speaker 1: Like it's harder for me to bet on the short
- 21:39Speaker 1: home dog here. I think I agree with you. We
- 21:44Speaker 1: were trying to put ourselves in a position where we
- 21:47Speaker 1: would need the Chargers in this one. The publics are
- 21:51Speaker 1: already on the Chargers at about a two to one clip,
- 21:54Speaker 1: and I don't think the Browns win last week was
- 21:56Speaker 1: enough to really kind of persuade any of the betters
- 21:58Speaker 1: to suddenly bat Leland. So, um, we know we want
- 22:03Speaker 1: to be pretty aggressive if they start coming in on
- 22:06Speaker 1: on the Chargers here. Um, we're at minus one now. Uh,
- 22:10Speaker 1: it's kind of the line that can go to two
- 22:12Speaker 1: two and a half without without a whole lot of
- 22:14Speaker 1: money on it. So uh, we're probably gonna move this
- 22:18Speaker 1: pretty pretty aggressively. And and I agree with you if
- 22:21Speaker 1: if you had to put a gun to my head
- 22:23Speaker 1: pick aside. I'm going with the Chargers in this one.
- 22:27Speaker 1: I'm so tempted to play it right now so I
- 22:29Speaker 1: can get the best of the number. Um, I don't
- 22:32Speaker 1: think so. There's not a whole lot of difference if
- 22:35Speaker 1: the line goes down to pick. Uh, not a whole
- 22:38Speaker 1: lot of difference. And you know, there's not a whole
- 22:40Speaker 1: lot of value that you're missing out on. It's not
- 22:43Speaker 1: going to move that much where you're gonna get a
- 22:45Speaker 1: bad number. So if you like the Chargers, minus one
- 22:47Speaker 1: isn't a bad number, That's what I mean. Yeah, I'd
- 22:53Speaker 1: lay it. I think I'm gonna yep, I'm gonna do it.
- 23:00Speaker 1: I like this chart. I like this charge you please.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Chad is making a bet allegedly you like that. Huh,
- 23:11Speaker 1: you caught me off guard. It's early in that one.
- 23:14Speaker 1: That one woke me up in a hurry. That was fun.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I'm doing it. I may or may not be doing it, allegedly.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Bring it up. What's the next game on the board?
- 23:30Speaker 1: Was that Atlanta? I don't know, because I don't know
- 23:34Speaker 1: what I don't know what order. You're going may be
- 23:36Speaker 1: looking at a different screen, so I may or may
- 23:38Speaker 1: not know. Uh, Tampa Bay at Atlanta Falcons three and
- 23:43Speaker 1: a half. Here's the thing. I think that's the perfectly
- 23:47Speaker 1: right number. I don't think there's an advantage on either
- 23:49Speaker 1: side there. Um, sharp guys are taking the three and
- 23:53Speaker 1: a half and I could see this line coming down
- 23:56Speaker 1: to three by game time. But this is another are
- 24:00Speaker 1: short um home favorite that I think, Uh, I think
- 24:06Speaker 1: I would lay. I favored the Falcons in this one.
- 24:09Speaker 1: I tried to be a little bit high and invite
- 24:11Speaker 1: a little Tampa Bay money on this one. Um. You know,
- 24:15Speaker 1: I like this Falcons team. You know, you look at
- 24:19Speaker 1: their record, you look at their losses, and like I said,
- 24:22Speaker 1: you know, last week, I thought it was kind of
- 24:23Speaker 1: a key game for them that I thought that they
- 24:27Speaker 1: would have beaten Pittsburgh or at least kept that game close,
- 24:30Speaker 1: but they just got dominated. I think they rebound, and uh,
- 24:34Speaker 1: you know, a divisional game like this one, I think
- 24:37Speaker 1: they're going to be up for and you know, it's
- 24:40Speaker 1: tough to lay the three and a half. I'd much
- 24:42Speaker 1: rather lay three. But that's why I'm high, because I
- 24:45Speaker 1: do like them, and I'm inviting a little Tampa Bay money.
- 24:50Speaker 1: I don't like it one bit to pass from me.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I don't trust you. There are these teams. I'll tell
- 24:55Speaker 1: you what though. Yeah, I'll tell you what is next game.
- 24:59Speaker 1: Here's thing I wrote in the Millman Red Zone Diaries,
- 25:01Speaker 1: which you can read on Action network dot com or
- 25:04Speaker 1: download the app and read there. I wrote that my
- 25:07Speaker 1: challenge next week is going to be if Minnesota beats Philadelphia,
- 25:12Speaker 1: They're gonna be huge favorites against the Cardinals, and I
- 25:15Speaker 1: am going to have to make a decision. Do I
- 25:19Speaker 1: get greedy and ride the Cardinals for one more week
- 25:23Speaker 1: as huge underdogs, or do I think I've gotten the
- 25:26Speaker 1: best of what I can get out of them, and
- 25:28Speaker 1: like I'm asking for too much to have them cover
- 25:31Speaker 1: a big number against a team that is probably starting
- 25:34Speaker 1: to feel a little bit better about itself. Yeah, we
- 25:38Speaker 1: had no problems making this line as high as we did.
- 25:41Speaker 1: And uh, and I can see it going up. So
- 25:44Speaker 1: anyone that that's gonna bet the Vikings might want to
- 25:47Speaker 1: do it now because this line is this line, I
- 25:49Speaker 1: might even move it. Might even move it today. Um
- 25:53Speaker 1: wait the line change? Should we do it? Wow? Really
- 26:05Speaker 1: with us this morning? That was great? Didn't Was it
- 26:13Speaker 1: wasted effort? Did you actually? I went to eleven? I'm
- 26:17Speaker 1: at eleven now you just turned it up to eleven?
- 26:20Speaker 1: That's my that's my what do you call it? What
- 26:25Speaker 1: do you call that? Spinal tap? Why keep it when
- 26:29Speaker 1: you can turn it up to eleven? There you go.
- 26:32Speaker 1: We we have more. We have the least amount of
- 26:35Speaker 1: bets on the Cardinals, uh, for any game on the board,
- 26:39Speaker 1: with the exception of the Bills Texans because we don't
- 26:41Speaker 1: have a line on it. But there's the least amount
- 26:44Speaker 1: of bets. The Cardinals have the least bets of any
- 26:46Speaker 1: team on the board for us, So might as well
- 26:51Speaker 1: go to eleven now? Uh, maybe take a couple of
- 26:55Speaker 1: sharp bets from you know, maybe some of that is
- 26:57Speaker 1: trying to middle a game or get a good number, Um,
- 27:00Speaker 1: but public is all on the Vikings. Wow, you did
- 27:06Speaker 1: that just now? I did? Well. I guess what I
- 27:10Speaker 1: just did? What you bet plus eleven? Chat? I didn't.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't do it. I didn't do it.
- 27:17Speaker 1: I didn't do it. But I may maybe I may
- 27:22Speaker 1: have bet. The Chargers have done everything that I don't
- 27:24Speaker 1: believe in, which is bet against Baker Mayfield and bet
- 27:28Speaker 1: on a uh bet against a home dog. Right another game. God,
- 27:36Speaker 1: it's like every week. It's so complicating in the NFL
- 27:39Speaker 1: because week tweek teams do things that get in your head.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Josh Allen is a horrible quarterback. He threw eighty two
- 27:48Speaker 1: yards last week. Yet somehow the Bills won that game.
- 27:51Speaker 1: They go on the road to the Texans, who are
- 27:53Speaker 1: looking at and they're favored by eight and a half.
- 27:56Speaker 1: That's too big of a number for me. But I
- 27:57Speaker 1: don't trust built like the buffalo of Bills on the road. Yeah, wise,
- 28:07Speaker 1: guys coming into the bed. Well mostly most most places
- 28:13Speaker 1: have this game off the board. UM. Still waiting on
- 28:17Speaker 1: the status of Deshaun Watson on this one. So this
- 28:22Speaker 1: line you could see a difference of I've seen as
- 28:25Speaker 1: high as ten early in the week. Uh, I could
- 28:28Speaker 1: see this line as low as six five right in
- 28:32Speaker 1: that neighborhood. So we we just need a little more
- 28:34Speaker 1: information on whether he's going to be playing Washington minus
- 28:38Speaker 1: one in over Carolina. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,
- 28:42Speaker 1: oh gosh. Scooch scooch, scoog scog. I might have take
- 28:50Speaker 1: the redskins. You have to have. You have to. I mean,
- 28:54Speaker 1: they're they're they're not even laying a field goal at home.
- 28:56Speaker 1: They're laying one, uh, coming off the loss. But they're
- 29:02Speaker 1: at home. The Panthers just struggled against the Giants. Now
- 29:08Speaker 1: the Panthers are on the road. Uh, you just have
- 29:12Speaker 1: to lay the redskins if you're if you have any
- 29:13Speaker 1: principles whatsoever, you got to just lay the one. Not
- 29:17Speaker 1: look back. Yeah. But here's the thing. I have principles,
- 29:21Speaker 1: and I just bet against them because I bet the Chargers.
- 29:27Speaker 1: I'm allegedly making just so everybody in the room knows
- 29:31Speaker 1: your attention, Please, Chad is making a bet allegedly Like yeah,
- 29:41Speaker 1: I love it. I got to yeah, you know. So,
- 29:48Speaker 1: So the public is going to be all over the
- 29:51Speaker 1: Panthers in this one, probably at about five to one
- 29:54Speaker 1: clip or ratio, and uh, I haven't seen any sharp
- 29:58Speaker 1: money on this one yet. Uh. I don't think they
- 30:02Speaker 1: know what to do with this one yet either. Really. No,
- 30:07Speaker 1: not a whole lot of movement. Well, I just bet it?
- 30:12Speaker 1: Did that move it? Yeah? Is that? Yeah? Okay? Yeah, okay,
- 30:24Speaker 1: you said that like that was the most authentic thing
- 30:26Speaker 1: I think you've ever said to me. Yeah, okay, sure, buddy.
- 30:32Speaker 1: My move isn't pinging around the world right now and
- 30:35Speaker 1: making sports books change this number. No, not in the least.
- 30:40Speaker 1: What about the next game? What if? What if? Allegedly
- 30:43Speaker 1: I would have bet the Denver Broncos at plus seven
- 30:46Speaker 1: against the Los Angeles Rams. Yeah, next to next to
- 30:51Speaker 1: the Bears. The Broncos have attracted the most wise guy
- 30:54Speaker 1: money on the board for us. UM. We opened the
- 30:57Speaker 1: game seven and a half, We went down the seven
- 30:59Speaker 1: minus money. They took the Broncos again at plus seven
- 31:02Speaker 1: even money. We're at seven flat now, and uh, this
- 31:07Speaker 1: is similar to last week's game. We talked a little
- 31:09Speaker 1: bit about it the Rams. Last week, we're seven and
- 31:12Speaker 1: a half against Seattle at one point six and a half.
- 31:15Speaker 1: It went down to uh kind of bounced back and forth,
- 31:18Speaker 1: and the public was all over the Rams last week,
- 31:21Speaker 1: and even even with them not covering last week, they're
- 31:24Speaker 1: they're gonna be on him again. Here. Uh, I don't
- 31:28Speaker 1: mind needing the Broncos plus that many points. I think
- 31:31Speaker 1: the value was all on the Broncos here. Uh, you
- 31:35Speaker 1: just you have to take uh, you have to take
- 31:37Speaker 1: the home team getting seven points. I don't care who
- 31:40Speaker 1: they're playing, so they're playing the best team in the
- 31:42Speaker 1: the NFC. But you have to just take the seven points.
- 31:46Speaker 1: You know what, you know what what I'm doing it.
- 31:54Speaker 1: There you go, your attention. Chad is making a bet
- 32:00Speaker 1: allegedly allegedly. That's great, I've allegedly done it. Yea, I
- 32:11Speaker 1: am having an action Jackson morning. I'll tell you these
- 32:17Speaker 1: are principal plays except for the Chargers. Yeah, that's the
- 32:23Speaker 1: only one. You know what the Chargers is though. That's
- 32:26Speaker 1: a smart play. That's like, let me just being smart.
- 32:33Speaker 1: I'm I in that Cardinals game. I may get there. Well,
- 32:38Speaker 1: you got the best line in town right here at
- 32:40Speaker 1: our place. Let me have the Cardinals. Let me hop
- 32:43Speaker 1: on my private jet and get to Vegas immediately and
- 32:46Speaker 1: hope that you don't move the number in the next
- 32:48Speaker 1: seven hours. Right, Baltimore Ravens. No, no, no, let me
- 32:54Speaker 1: move on Baltimore Ravens, because you were just gonna say something. Mean,
- 32:58Speaker 1: you're gonna say something to me. Baltimore Ravens minus three
- 33:03Speaker 1: at Tennessee, God, why do why do you guys all
- 33:07Speaker 1: have to challenge my principle so much? Yeah, you said
- 33:11Speaker 1: it at the top of the podcast that this week
- 33:14Speaker 1: will test every principle you have because there because they
- 33:19Speaker 1: don't pass the eye test. You know, you're getting three
- 33:22Speaker 1: points at home with the Titans. You have to you
- 33:24Speaker 1: have to take the Titaness. There's no reason for a
- 33:28Speaker 1: sharp better to be laying three with with the Ravens
- 33:31Speaker 1: on the road. Um, but it's this one just takes
- 33:35Speaker 1: a lot. You watch the Titans play and you know
- 33:38Speaker 1: they're they're not very consistent, uh that they don't and
- 33:42Speaker 1: still a whole lot of confidence in you. But you
- 33:45Speaker 1: are getting the three points. I think you just take
- 33:47Speaker 1: it here, uh and then just kind of say, hey,
- 33:49Speaker 1: if the Browns can beat the Ravens, then why can't
- 33:53Speaker 1: the Titans at home? All Right, Well, let's let's pair
- 33:57Speaker 1: these two games. Let's pair the Ravens and the Titans
- 34:00Speaker 1: and the Jags and the Cowboys because the Jags are
- 34:03Speaker 1: three point favorites over the Cowboys at home. Yeah. Same
- 34:07Speaker 1: same theory too, Same same theory there. I don't mind
- 34:12Speaker 1: needing the Cowboys in this one. Um. The publics on
- 34:15Speaker 1: the Jaguars, even though they didn't look great last week,
- 34:19Speaker 1: publics on the Jaguars. The sharp guys didn't really weigh
- 34:21Speaker 1: in on this one yet. UM on the on the
- 34:25Speaker 1: Jaguars Cowboys haven't seen a whole lot of sharp action.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Most of it's just public money on the Jags. Um.
- 34:32Speaker 1: But I just I favored the favorite of the Cowboys here.
- 34:36Speaker 1: I don't mind needing the home dog. What games do
- 34:41Speaker 1: you think I should talk about in Sports Center on Sunday, Well,
- 34:45Speaker 1: definitely the Rams Broncos. That to me, that's one of
- 34:49Speaker 1: the most interesting ones. Well, the Chiefs Patriots is the
- 34:52Speaker 1: big one, and definitely talking about those, all right, So
- 34:54Speaker 1: I should talk Rams Broncos, in which I will say
- 34:57Speaker 1: I'm taking the Broncos. I should talk Patriot Chiefs, in
- 35:00Speaker 1: which I will say I'm taking the Patriots. And then
- 35:03Speaker 1: do I go like be bold and say that I'm
- 35:06Speaker 1: taking the Cowboys like against the Jags, Like it's the
- 35:09Speaker 1: perfect time, You're never going to get better value on
- 35:12Speaker 1: the Cowboys, like this is the game they need. This
- 35:14Speaker 1: is sort of the gut check moment where am I crazy?
- 35:20Speaker 1: I don't think you're crazy. Um, I don't know that.
- 35:23Speaker 1: That's the third most interesting game on them, an interesting scooch.
- 35:28Speaker 1: I want to freaking win. I don't want to be
- 35:31Speaker 1: a loser. You want winners. Yeah. By the way, the
- 35:40Speaker 1: Monday night game is Green Bay San Francisco. Green Bay's
- 35:42Speaker 1: and nine and a half point favorite. This game's dog
- 35:45Speaker 1: trash because like one legged Aaron Rodgers. It's like it's
- 35:49Speaker 1: like an s a t question is a one legged
- 35:52Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers? And acclaim Matthews who's afraid to rush the
- 35:54Speaker 1: quarterback better then a guy named CJ. Bethard mhmm yeah,
- 36:05Speaker 1: even with c. J. Beth You know, nine and a
- 36:08Speaker 1: half points again, you almost have to just take the
- 36:12Speaker 1: dog here. But I wouldn't feel great about it. We
- 36:16Speaker 1: we felt that, you know, ten is that critical kind
- 36:19Speaker 1: of tipping point. We didn't want to quite go that high.
- 36:21Speaker 1: But by by game time the public might drive green
- 36:26Speaker 1: Bay up a little bit. But you know, it's not
- 36:31Speaker 1: one I want to watch. I don't want to watch
- 36:35Speaker 1: it either. I don't want to watch it. I'm not
- 36:37Speaker 1: gonna watch it. Scooge we got um. You know you
- 36:44Speaker 1: haven't given me a third game? Like? Do I take
- 36:46Speaker 1: the Chargers over the Browns? Do I go against the Green? Like?
- 36:49Speaker 1: What do I do here? I thought you were gonna
- 36:53Speaker 1: take Arizona plus eleven on Sunday to talk about on
- 36:57Speaker 1: TV on Sunday morey Uh yeah, No, that's not good.
- 37:02Speaker 1: That's not good. I mean that's how I took Arizona
- 37:03Speaker 1: plus four to Cleveland plus three last week. How much
- 37:10Speaker 1: do you like the Bengals? I do like the Bengals.
- 37:15Speaker 1: That might be a nice one to talk about. There's
- 37:16Speaker 1: a lot of Steeler fans out there you can take off. Dude,
- 37:19Speaker 1: what part of this? Like? Are you not understanding? I
- 37:22Speaker 1: am not interested like the broadest possible audience. I am
- 37:26Speaker 1: interested in being right. It's scary to go on television
- 37:30Speaker 1: and say I am taking this side. You want you
- 37:35Speaker 1: want locks? I got it. I want a lock. I
- 37:38Speaker 1: want locks, and I don't mean the kind you put
- 37:39Speaker 1: on a bagel. Yeah. I can't help you there. Well
- 37:47Speaker 1: give me your scooch roulette, then I'll let you go
- 37:49Speaker 1: for guess what it's time to do. It's time to
- 37:52Speaker 1: play Scooch Roulette. I didn't see that, guy, I did not. Well,
- 38:06Speaker 1: you got them all? You hitting me with all of
- 38:08Speaker 1: them today, three new ones. We are so ready. Yeah.
- 38:14Speaker 1: I love the Patriots And uh no you didn't, Oh
- 38:21Speaker 1: no you was. I not supposed to go first? Yeah,
- 38:29Speaker 1: three and a half probably not the best number to lay,
- 38:31Speaker 1: but I don't think it all matter this This is
- 38:36Speaker 1: so far the most important game for the Patriots this
- 38:38Speaker 1: year and they want to make a statement. All right.
- 38:46Speaker 1: Am I going with the Chargers? Am I going with
- 38:48Speaker 1: the Bengals? Am I going with the Broncos? Chargers, Bengals
- 38:52Speaker 1: or Broncos? Which team? Like? You know which team? If
- 38:58Speaker 1: my life is depending on it, who am I betting on? There?
- 39:02Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, case Keenum or Philip Rivers. If you boil
- 39:05Speaker 1: it down to that, who am I choosing? It's a
- 39:08Speaker 1: no brainer. You with Philip Rivers? Yeah? Tell me is
- 39:17Speaker 1: go against everything you believe in. I'm not telling you
- 39:22Speaker 1: anything because you are trying to pick a winner. That's it.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Far be it from me to try and persuade you
- 39:30Speaker 1: during Scooch Roulette. I gotta take off my glasses and
- 39:33Speaker 1: think for a minute. I need to rub my eyes.
- 39:37Speaker 1: Oh my god. It is like an S A T test.
- 39:41Speaker 1: I just keep thinking, like they're the right side. Who
- 39:46Speaker 1: do they play last weekend that they almost lost to?
- 39:49Speaker 1: Who the Chargers try to play the Raiders? Raiders and
- 39:52Speaker 1: they I think they beat him by ten. Yeah, but
- 39:54Speaker 1: it was close. It was back and forth. Yeah. No,
- 39:57Speaker 1: that was the Niners the week before. They'd be him
- 40:00Speaker 1: by sixteen. That's right, Yeah, that was the Niners the
- 40:03Speaker 1: week before. It was like back and forth. Forget everything
- 40:06Speaker 1: I've ever written, ever said. I'm going with the Chargers.
- 40:08Speaker 1: Is road Favorites short road? He's he's hitting on a sixteen.
- 40:16Speaker 1: Guess a five. I know what the dealer's got. Yeah,
- 40:23Speaker 1: I know what Philip Rivers has. All right, truth be told?
- 40:29Speaker 1: All right. Thank you for listening to the Favorites podcast
- 40:34Speaker 1: from the Action Network. I am Chad Milman. I was
- 40:36Speaker 1: joined by a bookmaker to the world, Bob Scooci. You
- 40:40Speaker 1: can listen to us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We'll
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